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Tech Moves: Expedia board director Skip Battle resigns; Madrona promotions; Vacasa’s new CFO

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AskJeeves was acquired in 2005 by IAC, the internet media company run by Barry Diller, who is also chairman of Seattle-based Expedia Group. Cohen was most recently CFO for ANGI Homeservices, a digital marketplace created when home improvement directories Angie’s List and HomeAdvisor merged in 2017. Based in Denver, Colo.,

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Amazon’s strategy to squeeze marketplace sellers and maximize its own profits is evolving

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The report , which comes from the nonprofit Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR), asserts that Amazon takes a larger and larger cut of sellers’ earnings through the various fees it levies on them. According to ILSR, those referral fees made up the majority of seller fees as recently as 2017. AWS netted $13.5

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Big Tech’s employees are one of the biggest checks on its power

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Zhang, whose job at Facebook was to identify spammy activity on the platform, gradually became aware of a deeper issue after she started working at the company in 2017: Authoritarian governments in places like Azerbaijan and Honduras were systematically using fake Facebook pages and profiles to influence politics in those countries.

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The true cost of Amazon’s low prices

Vox

This follows reports that the Federal Trade Commission is ramping up its years-long antitrust investigation into Amazon’s cloud computing arm, Amazon Web Services, or AWS. It’s a delivery service. It powers about a third of the internet. It’s a movie studio and a streaming service. It’s a technology company.

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